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Lily Meyer of NPR takes a deep dive into poet Hanif Abdurraqib's latest book of prose, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest.

For NPR's Books section, Craig Morgan Teicher previews a few new poetry collections that are due out this year.

NPR Books thinks poetry may be the perfect holiday gift, and Mary Louise Kelly of All Things Considered has invited writers to talk about the books they'll be gifting. First up is...

Cuban poet and novelist Wendy Guerra's novel, Revolution Sunday (Melville House, 2018), translated by Achy Obejas, collides poetry and prose to convey a poet's world while living and creating within Cuba's...

This year's winner for the National Book Award in Poetry goes to Justin Phillip Reed for his debut collection, Indecency.

Martha Anne Toll reviews We Begin In Gladness (Graywolf, 2018), by Craig Morgan Teicher, for NPR Books. Notably, "Teicher's book comes on the heels of Matthew Zapruder's Why Poetry? published last year, and...

NPR's Western North Carolina affiliate Blue Ridge Radio shares an interview with Tina Barr, who left city life in Memphis, Tennessee for Western North Carolina. Her most recent book is...

Former US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey has a new book out called Monument (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), which she discussed, among much else, for NPR's Weekend Edition. "Trethewey says her...